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- [Man] You know, designing and working with typography…is an entire subject in itself…and for generations people have been working with type…and figuring out ways in which they can make type…much more readable or more attractive.…And issues with typography and the limitations…of what we can do on the web have plagued us…for quite some time now.…- [Woman] Yeah, unfortunately the same issues apply…whether we were doing presentational work with fonts…and now what we have with CSS in the sense that…if a given typeface is not available on the user's machine,…it will not display in a browser;…and as a result we have had to limit ourselves…to those known fonts that are installed…on most common browsers.…

We're looking at a page called The Elements…of Typographic Style Applied to the Web here,…which is a wonderful, wonderful guide to web typography…that I think everybody should check out and,…again, this will be in the bookmarks.html file…for you to check and see; but back to the issue.…Part of the problem has been is that fonts are expensive,…

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6/2/2006

In CSS for Designers, Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke expertly guide you through some of the most complex and useful techniques used in progressive Web design. Molly and Andy consider the topics from the point of view of creative, visual people rather than developers or programmers. Their unique approach helps give designers all the tools they need to create accessible, manageable, and beautiful websites.